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Data from the study: Indications of dynamic effects on scaling relationships between channel sinuosity and vegetation patch size across a salt marsh platform
Citable as data publication
Taramelli, A.; Valentini, E.; Cornacchia, L.; Monbaliu, J.; Sabbe K. (2018). Data from the study: Indications of dynamic effects on scaling relationships between channel sinuosity and vegetation patch size across a salt marsh platform. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/322
Contact: Taramelli, Andrea ; Cornacchia, Loreta

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
Dataset for the paper "Indications of dynamic effects on scaling relationships between channel sinuosity and vegetation patch size across a salt marsh platform". This dataset includes: 1) the image-based classification of the Saeftinghe salt marsh (Scheldt) based on satellite SPOT images from 1999 and 2012; 2) in situ field radiometric measurements; 3) the Excel files containing the data on vegetation patch sizes, channel network sinuosity, marsh slope and marsh elevation.

Scope
Themes:
Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries)
Keywords:
Brackish water, Channel sinuosity, Power laws, Remote sensing, Salt marsh, Belgium: Scheldt estuary, Saeftinghe

Geographical coverage
Belgium: Scheldt estuary, Saeftinghe [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
May 1999 - July 2012

Contributors
Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)data creator
Taramelli, Andrea
Valentini, Emiliana
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), moredata creator
Cornacchia, Loreta
KU Leuven; Afdeling Hydraulicadata creator
Monbaliu, Jaak
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Protistologie en Aquatische Ecologie (PAE)data creator
Sabbe, Koen

Project
THESEUS: Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate

Publication
Based on this dataset
Taramelli, A. et al. (2018). Indications of dynamic effects on scaling relationships between channel sinuosity and vegetation patch size across a salt marsh platform. JGR: Earth Surface 123(10): 2714-2731. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2017jf004540

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2018-09-10
Information last updated: 2018-09-24
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